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• Title: Fruits of the Orchard: Land, Space, And State in Kepulauan Riau (Indonesia) (Report)
• Author : SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 246 KB

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Kepulauan Riau (popularly and hereafter referred to as Kepri)--is Indonesia's youngest province. In 2004, it formally seceded from the wider province of Riau, doing so largely on a Malay ethnonationalist platform (see Colombijn 2003; Faucher 2005; Thung and Leolita Masnun 2002). However, Kepri's proximity to Singapore has recently attracted hundreds of thousands of migrants from elsewhere in Indonesia (Lyons and Ford 2007). Thus while the provincial government defiantly asserts that Kepri is the "heartland of Malay culture", observers visiting the islands have instead been struck by their extensive cultural pluralism, viewing it as a "tiny microcosm of Indonesia" (Guerin 2001) or a "distillation of 'Unity in Diversity'" (Mack 2004, p. 158). Demographic movements have carried with them both new persons and new solidarities. But they have also generated new anxieties. Specifically, a belief reverberates around Kepri--subscribed to by Malay and migrant alike--that Malays are culturally disadvantaged relative to migrants, and continually losing out to them in situations where they are forced to "compete": the job market, formal education, local politics, and the context I focus on in this article--disputes over land.

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